Apple forced to open its in-app payment system
After Google, it is now Apple's turn to comply with the decision of the Korean Communications Commission (KCC) of South Korea, which has requ...
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Apple Takes on the Buy Now Pay Later Market
Apple is said to be in the process of strengthening its partnership with Goldman Sachs in order to offer a new BNPL-type credit product. The info...
Payments News in Brief – December 2019
Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Monese lets their UK customers open joint accounts and starts featuring joint accounts in euros for EEA ...
Google Working on a Checking Account
FACTS Yet another player looking into the banking industry, Google plans to launch a checking account in the US.
Payments News in Brief – September 2019
Players’ Strategy UNITED KINGDOM – Curve opened their capital to large audiences for a short while via the crowdfunding platform CrowdCube....
News in Brief – August 2019
Players’ Strategy FRANCE – BNP Paribas observed a sharp increase in their number of active mobile users for Hello bank! As well as consiste...
Allianz Crafts a Mobile Payment App
FACTS The German insurance company Allianz introduces a mobile payment app called Pay&Protect.
News in Brief – June 2019
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – China UnionPay partners with the British start-up Tribe Payments on launching their services in Europe. In addit...
Amazon Credit Card for “Financial Inclusion”
FACTS The US e-commerce company Amazon launches a credit card in partnership with Synchrony Bank.
m-Banking: Zero Financial Raises $20M
FACTS The American FinTech Zero Financial focuses on the market for credit cards making adjustments to Millennials’ needs. They just raised...
News in Brief – May 2019
Players’ Strategy FRANCE – Nickel claims 4,800 agents (1 in 5 newsagents) or 60% increase year-over-year. Goal: attract 10,000 agents by 20...
Apple NFC Tag for Apple Pay Transactions
FACTS At this year’s TRANSACT conference in Las Vegas, Apple announced they are working on a new NFC feature.
News in Brief – April 2019
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – Elavon (subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp) partners with Société Générale on addressing eight European markets: United ...
News in Brief – March 2019
Players’ Strategy EUROPE – As they reported strong process in turnover for 2018, the FinTech Treezor (owned by Société Générale since Septe...
Apple Bets of Services
FACTS At their latest keynote, Tim Cook introduced several projects by Apple and insisted on their intent to further focus on services: a s...
A Retail Property Company Bets on Apple and Google Apps for their Customer Loyalty Programme
FACTS Mercialys, retail property company owned by Casino Group and key player in managing shopping malls in France, has been focusing on de...
News in Brief – February 2019
Players’ Strategy UNITED STATES – PayPal falls short of expectations and reports $4.23Bn instead of $4.24Bn for Q4 2018. Even so, they stil...
Credit Card: Apple / Goldman Sachs Partnership Taking Shape
Photo credits: Fox Business FACTS Less than a year ago, The Wall Street Journal referred to a possible partnership between Goldman Sachs...
News in Brief – January 2019
Players’ Strategy INTERNATIONAL – nexo (international standard for accepting cross-border card payments) kept making progress and attracted...
News in Brief – December 2018
Players’ Strategy RUSSIA – Ingenico partners with several Russian banks on streamlining payments for international e-merchants with operati...
